The Somaliland government has announced that there are no ongoing talks with the Somali government, after the Somali government said it was in talks with Somaliland.
Somaliland has said that there are no talks with the Federal Government of Somalia, accusing it of blatant interference in Somaliland’s internal affairs, which has led to the complete cessation of talks that have been ongoing for 13 years.
An official statement released by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation on Twitter said that Somaliland “was never part of the federal system established for Somalia in 2012,” and that it regained its independence in 1991, and has been independently establishing its state institutions since then.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that “the talks with Somalia have been suspended,” and that no one “can change that decision,” and accused the Somali government of misleading the international media.
Somaliland has accused the federal government of disrupting long-running talks between the two sides. It added that “Somaliland is an independent and stable country with a united people, not part of Somalia.”
Somalia’s State Minister for Foreign Affairs, Ali Omar Balcad, said yesterday that the federal government is working closely with Somaliland, noting that the two sides have direct and regular contacts.
